AVA Acquisitions
AVA is changing the way agencies grow.
Agency Ventures Aggregator (AVA) was founded by exceptionally experienced agency owners and investors. It offers unprecedented choice to founders, excellence to clients, and ROI to stakeholders.
We don’t only buy businesses outright, we also invest in your future, become your partners, and help you scale at speed.
This is a completely different way of building an agency network with people at its heart.
AVA accelerates growth – and financial returns
We buy agencies like yours who want to play on a bigger stage. At the same time, you want to maximize the return on the years of effort you have invested.
Programmatic M&A provides fuel and programmatic scaling delivers results. AVA works with the pioneering 2Y3X program to drive fast growth across all our companies. 2Y3X has a seven-year track record of successfully doubling or tripling agency revenue.
This scaling framework is people-centered. It gives agencies like yours the best opportunity to be successful.
In turn your success drives AVA’s growth. As a result founders and investors alike get exceptional returns.
This approach means AVA can move faster than most – and deliver stunning results.
Nurturing and supporting the next wave of talent
AVA’s team has extensive experience with the big agency networks. So like you we know the old 20th century model is no longer fit for purpose, and that command-and-control has had its day.
Your future success is dependent on nurturing your brightest and best people. You and your team will get training, mentoring and support to make sure you are successful.
AVA will give you the world’s best management methods so you can develop and support your people. These are all designed not to limit you but to empower you.
We believe in nurturing visionary leaders as well as up-and-coming talent. And we give everyone the tools, opportunities and skills so that together we can create a better kind of agency network.
At the heart of stellar performance lies culture
When we look at acquisition opportunities our first lens is culture. We only invest in businesses that care about the way things get done.
This is critical. So when your agency joins an AVA group we rigorously assess its culture so we can be certain you can flourish.
We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive network. Hiring strategies, how teams are built, and how we identify potential acquisitions reflect this.
We spend a lot of time focusing on creating a superb culture. Because as you know, a great culture means market-leading performance.

Tom Shipley, chief executive
Tom has over 20-years experience launching and scaling brands and omni-digital, multi-brand platforms. His brands have sold over $2B through D2C marketing, Amazon, and retailers including Costco, Ulta, CVS, Nordstrom, HSN and more.
Prior to joining AVA Tom raised $100m to launch Foundry, the Amazon and e-commerce brand aggregator.

Peter Lang, group M&A
Peter Lang is an entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist with more than 11-years of experience starting, building, buying, and selling companies in online publishing, media, advertising, e-commerce, training, and consulting. Peter is the creator of leading agency M&A training program DAB.
Prior to joining AVA Peter co-founded Uhuru Network, growing the group 500% in two years.

Felix Velarde, strategy
Felix Velarde is a serial digital pioneer who started the first of six agencies in 1994. After three years as an agency group CEO he became UK lead for Mei Lin Fung and Vint Cerf’s People Centered Internet coalition.
In 2016 he founded the 2Y3X program, which is now in Europe, Middle East, Africa, USA and Canada. In 2021 the manual for the program, Scale at Speed: How to triple the size of your business and build a superstar team, was published worldwide by Hachette.

Jo Royce, groups COO
Jo Royce ran digital agencies Glue Isobar (Dentsu Aegis) and Possible (WPP). She’s had roles in people strategy at Google, marketing transformation at Unilever, and leadership coaching for Google Digital Academy.
Jo is responsible for integration and leadership development for all of AVA’s groups.

Tony Atkins, agency M&A
Tony Atkins manages AVA’s extensive outreach program. With hands on responsibility for acquisitions, he looks after founders from first contact all the way through to deal.
Tony was the founder of CixxFive, a digital marketing agency based in Dallas, Texas, which was acquired by Uhuru in 2020.

Vanessa Rodriguez, integrations
Vanessa Rodriguez manages product development, streamlines workflow and constructs operational teams to achieve our growth goals at agency level.
Vanessa is also president of Uhuru Network.
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